SOUTHWEST TRAFFIC SERVICES
(Y2K compliant since 1899)
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Established in 1985,
Southwest Traffic Services
is your full service truck, rail and distribution consulting company.
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Established in 1985,
Southwest Traffic Services
is your full service truck, rail and distribution consulting company.
Our specialty is the pre-audit (auditing the freight bills before payment) and payment of freight bills. Post audits are also performed, but remember the limits of the Trucking Industry Regulatory Reform Act of 1994. The shipper has only 180 days to raise the rate issue with the carrier. Southwest Traffic Services has the ability to provide customized, computer Freight Summaries with the information your company needs including any mathematical calculations for your analysis.
Southwest Traffic Services also serves as a consultant to interstate and intrastate common and contract motor freight carriers assisting with the interpretation of rates, rules and regulations of the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and the California Public Utilities Commission. Southwest Traffic Services also advises passenger operations, (i.e., airport shuttles, limousines and bus lines) as to the rules and regulations of the FHWA and CPUC.
Arnold A. Lewin has been in motor freight in the San Diego area for over 25 years. Starting as a driver for major carriers, Lewin moved into management after three years. He became Terminal Manager for McLean Trucking in San Marcos and then was promoted to Tucson, Arizona. When McLean Trucking filed for bankruptcy, Lewin joined the sales department of Consolidated Freightways. After three years Lewin established Southwest Traffic Services. One year later, Lewin petitioned the California Public Utilities Commission to establish Southwest Motor Tariff Bureau, Inc. Authority was granted in 1986 and four tariffs were written and on file by January 1988. In the first four years, over 35 carriers had joined the Bureau.
Lewin is also president of Southwest Traffic Services, a company serving as a consultant to California interstate and intrastate common and contract carriers. Assisting with the interpretation of rates, rules, and regulations of the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Transportation and the California Public Utilities Commission. Southwest Traffic Services also advises passenger operations; i.e. airport shuttles, limousines, and bus lines, as to the rules and regulations of the FHWA, the DOT and CPUC.
Since 1989, Arnold Lewin has been an instructor in the Extension Program of the University of California at San Diego and at the University of California at Los Angeles, teaching Industrial Traffic Management. The course concentrates on the rules and regulations of:
Lewin also taught courses in Southern California for the Transportation Claims and Prevention Council.
He is also an ICC Practitioner, licensed to practice before the United States Surface Transportation Board.
1166 Wotan Drive
Encinitas, California
92024-4057
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